The application is for operating preventive maintenance capital and ADA paratransit expenses

The Salisbury City of North Carolina was awarded a $383,157 Formula Grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Transit Administration (FTA) under the Federal Transit Formula Grants program (CFDA 20.507). The funding allows the city to continue offering safe, efficient, and affordable demand-responsive ADA paratransit transportation services, including wheelchair-equipped vans, to the general public in the cities of Salisbury, Spencer, and East Spencer. This grant supports the city's efforts to enhance accessibility to employment, social, recreational, educational, and medical facilities for citizens in the Rowan County region. The award date is May 2, 2025, with a performance period through March 30, 2031.

Activities

Funding allows the city to continue offering safe efficient and affordable transportation alternative to the general public in the cities of salisbury spencer and east spencer; thus permitting greater accessibility to employment social recreational educational and medical facilities. Funding supports our demand responsive ADA paratransit system that includes wheelchair lift-equipped vans to accommodate citizens unable to access our fixed route bus system because of a functional disability.

Expected outcomes

Continue offering safe efficient and affordable transportation alternative to the general public.

Intended beneficiaries

Citizens in the cities of salisbury spencer and east spencer. All three cities are in rowan county.